5/24/2023 0 Comments The inner fish bookWhile the explanations may be simple (which made for easy reading), there was enough material unfamiliar to me to keep me interested. Jared: Yes, when I read in a book review that Your Inner Fish was written at a high school reading level, I thought it might be a collection of simple explanations of well-worn material. The “inner fish” of the title is a reference to the many aspects of human anatomy that resemble similar aspects of fish anatomy, sometimes in surprisingly fundamental ways. Its subtitle, “a journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body,” is a tipoff to how much the topic of anatomy directs the discussion. Anatomy may sound like dull reading, but I found the book to be both informative and entertaining. Here is our conversation about this interesting book.ĭave: I’ve read at least a dozen books on evolution and natural history, but this is the first one I’ve read that uses a comparative anatomy approach. By coincidence, Jared at LDS Science Review had posted the same book in his “Currently Reading” list. I recently read Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon Books, 2008) by Neil Shubin, a paleotologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago.
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